A bride and groom have saved thousands on their wedding day by heading to their favourite supermarket, Aldi . Rachel Pishhorn and Tom Jolley from Northamptonshire estimate they saved nearly £2,000 on their big day by opting for flowers from Aldi to make their own wedding bouquets and decorations. The couple put their creative skills to the test, using Aldi’s Beautiful Blooms Large Mixed Bouquets priced at £5.
99 to make eight wedding bouquets for the bridesmaids, alongside £2.39 Carnations and £2.79 Chrysanthemums to make a personalised bouquet for the bride.
With the addition of £2.25 Alstroemeria and the £4.99 Rose Duo Bouquet they were also able to make floral arrangements to dress their wedding tables and even used dried petals to make their own wedding confetti - saving the bargain-loving couple even more money.
Bride, Rachel, got in touch with Aldi to thanks them after the floral arrangements cost just £200. And after hearing of the couple’s wedding plans and their love for Aldi, the supermarket decided to cover the cost of the flowers, gifting them to Rachel and Tom as a wedding present. Rachel Pishhorn, a teacher from Weldon, said: “We were shocked to find out how much it cost to get married and there are so many little things like flowers which can cost thousands.
Aldi is our favourite supermarket and I regularly buy bouquets there which last for well over a week, so I thought why not get our wedding flowers from Aldi too? “We were so happy with our bea.